Yeah I understand hating the Meta glasses, but what, are we going to destroy every camera we find in the wild? This is a small piece of a larger problem and I'm just not sure assaulting a stranger on the subway is the way to go about it.
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are we going to destroy every camera we find in the wild?
Yes.
Yeah my first thought was "you know what? Now that you mention it, I'd be more than happy with that. I didn't even think of it as an option but yeah, sure, let's give it a go"
I think there's even an achievement for doing that.
Start with your phone then.
Being stuck inside a system does not make one a hypocrite to criticize it from within the system. Nor would one act of self immolation achieve anything but dying pointlessly in a fire. The prison guards will merely shovel your remains into a bucket. People like you will continue to goad other miserable prisoners into more pointless acts of self destruction for short term personal gratification.
We're so deep into the technological surveillance state that people like you can't even see that there was once a world outside these prison walls. You've accepted your fate. Maybe you we're born into it. Maybe it's been so long that you've forgotten it's not normal to have all this forced upon us. In this world where surveillance state technology is required, smartphones are now integrated into critical needs of daily life. From government to financial institutions to workplace. You cannot live without it short of going inawoods Ted K style. At which point the prison guards are likely to descend upon your log cabin with the full military force of the state and corporate apparatus.
Ultimately these acts of immolation achieve nothing against the system itself but demonstrate the futility that we're all stuck inside a prison. Seems like you thought you had a really clever retort there. You don't. It's you who are the fool.
If I could get a phone without one I would.
I don't recall ever having used the damn thing, all it does is stick out like a wart making the phone unsightly and unnecessarily thick.
And the other, even more useless one is just poking an extremely irritating hole on the screen.
They're probably scratched beyond any usability anyway, since for some reason cases and screen protectors refuse to cover them.
If you want a phone without camera, wifi or audio, just install Linux on it /s
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are we going to destroy every camera we find in the wild
If it is from a mega corp that is known for spying on people: absolutely
They have no right for cameras in public.
They have no right for cameras in public.
I'm pretty sure they do. That comes along with the word "public". This sounds like ICE telling observers to stop filming.
Collecting the footage from thousands of cameras and turning it into a giant surveillance system to track everyone is a different matter, and that's what needs to be made illegal.
I would be perfectly fine with filming in public being illegal without concent with the expection of public officials
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When Google Glass was a thing people with assistive vision technologies were being attacked too.
I find it interesting that we only know of this because someone recorded the guy.
He recorded himself after the incident.
The video in the story is being filmed by a third party. But honestly I give the whole story a 52% chance of being completely staged.
Every little bit helps! If we all pitch in, many hands make light work!
Very true, this is why we need people advocating for privacy law. I think those responding don't understand I'm on their side, I'm just approaching it from a constructive point of view.
are we going to destroy every camera we find in the wild?
Yes
Are you for real? Or just a Meta bot? Can't you see the difference between a camera in a phone, that is more or less obvious when pointed to film a person, and a camera mounted in glasses? For real?
Or are you suggesting that if we have let phones with cameras be, we should tolerate another escalation in the fight against privacy?
Please let me know which is it?! Im really curious.
A phone in a breast pocket doesn't look all that out of place, especially if the person has very tight jeans on, but it's quite effective for filming.
To be clear, I'm not OP, and I'm not even necessarily saying you are wrong, but as with most things I think our energy is being pointed in the wrong direction. I care more about the governments and corporations with their ability to record and cross reference images and videos from basically everywhere much more than I care about an individuals ability to do so. Even our concerns with an individuals ability to do so are often a result of that individual's ability to amplify the harmful aspects through the use of one of the aforementioned's unchecked power.
If we aren't afraid to fuck up some people wearing Meta glasses that are being dick heads, then let's also not be afraid to fuck up the government and corpo forms of it as well.
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How many flock cameras and ring cameras did she pass that day lol (has NYC banned them?)
“I was making a funny noise people were honestly crying laughing at,” he claimed in the caption of a followup video. “She was the only person annoyed.
Dude tried turning a commuter train into a content factory. Fuck that. Hire participants. Pay people.
We’ve all met that kid in first grade.
It was not a funny noise, I’m sure of it.
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Some cashier at McDonalds will probably rat her out Luigi-style.
Not sure what you’re talking about; Luigi and I were playing cards that day. He was physically with me the entire time.
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A seeming eternity later, Meta has attempted to revive the idea with its Ray-Ban Meta glasses. While it’s arguably a significant technological leap over Google’s early forays
Duh, Google Glass was 2013. A brand new one that Meta pumped an obscene amount of money into had better be much improved to aid the government's warrantless surveillance programs on Americans
Which is what it is, just another platform for intelligence gathering that Meta sells to the government
...and not only are morons voluntarily wearing them, they're paying for the privilege to do so
Meta tells the people that buy these glasses that they "only record audio and video when you tell them to" but that turned out to be an absolute lie. It's always looking, always listening, and people shouldn't use these fuckin corpo people trackers and advertisement machines.
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I even let her sit down when she got on the train at 42nd street, and I continued to stand.
Oh wow, everyone look at this chivalrous hero - he was standing when she got on the subway, and graciously “let” a random woman sit. It’s not like he gave up a seat for her, but he still thinks that by “continuing to stand” he somehow did something special that she should be grateful to him for.
I know seats can be a rare opportunity on the NYC subway, especially around 42nd St. But to think that by standing you’re somehow entitled to more respect than anyone else is absurd.
Funny how she was standing in the video he posted though. In a really pretty relaxed position too so it doesn't look like she just got up.
like the google glass was used for porn as soon as it was released, and then shortly google stopped making them.
To be fair,some of the earliest examples we have in all media is "porn".
the entire internets life cycle has always been:
- new tech
- new porn delivery option
- widespread use of new tech
- profit
- repeat
I’ve always wanted a pair of glasses with a cool hud, that tells me the time and weather and shows me what song im playing or a text i got. Is that so evil?
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Remember the “old” saying that if the product is free, you’re the product? This is the end stage of that where unwilling and unknowing participants are now the product.
Also, anyone remember gargoyles from Snow Crash?
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